If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from.

Our government seems to have taken this teaching to heart when it comes to dealing with Pakistan. As usual, our good-for-nothing-but-terrorism neighbors have violated the ceasefire by killing two Indian soldiers, shown the level to which they can stoop by mutilating the body of one of them and are now claiming innocence. The politicians who unfortunately govern India are busy making inane remarks like ‘Whatever has to be done will be done’. If that means lodging ‘strong’ protests or summoning Pakistan’s high commissioner, then that’s clearly not enough. God knows it has never been enough.

What needs to be done is severing all ties with Pakistan – immediately. Stop importing anything from them. Stop exporting anything to them. Close all routes going to and coming from that country. Don’t allow any musicians, actors, cricketers and assorted Pakistani citizens to set foot on Indian soil. And lastly, if any pro-Pakistani people this side of the border start making sympathetic noises, ask them to shut their trap or move to the other side. Oh, and BTW, the nations like the US who assume that they have a God-gifted right to meddle in any country’s sovereign affairs would do well to set their house in order first.

While we are at it, someone please ask Madam Hina Rabbani Khar what in the hell does she mean by ‘I hope both the countries will show their commitment to correct (the situation) as we are showing our commitment to correct’. The only thing her country is trying to correct is the position of the Line of Control – since past 65 years!

I have, for years, heard an idea, a very romantic one, being touted around - ‘The common man in Pakistan wants to have peaceful relations with India.’ Well, if this common man really exists there, then it is high time he speaks up.

Until then India should adopt a new Mantra – An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Let the bloody whole world go blind – and toothless!